OAKLAND, Calif. — Marshawn Lynch had a 51-yard touchdown run and recorded his first 100-yard rushing game since coming out of retirement to lead the Oakland Raiders to a 24-17 victory over the Giants on Sunday in New York’s first game without Eli Manning starting in 13 years. Oakland (6-6) …

Activists opposed to issues ranging from a drainage project that will eliminate more than 200 trees at City Park Golf Course to the Interstate 70 expansion through northeast Denver called on Sunday for political action to unseat the mayor and City Council. Speakers at the protest outside the golf course on …

Pope Francis has defended his public silence over the plight of Rohingya Muslim refugees during his visit to Myanmar. He urged respect for “each ethnicity and its identity” during a speech in the southeast Asian country, but stopped short of making specific reference to what the UN has labelled “a …

US defence officials are looking for sites on the country’s west coast to deploy new anti-missile systems, two congressmen have claimed. The Missile Defence Agency is considering several locations to install a new Terminal High Altitude Air Defence (THAAD) interceptor system similar to the one which protects South Korea against …

Donald Trump has claimed the FBI’s reputation is “in tatters” and at its lowest point in history amid questions over his sacking of a former national security adviser. The US President is facing claims he obstructed justice after appearing to confirm for the first time that he knew ex-adviser Michael …

Star Wars actor Mark Hamill has said he used a wheelchair to attempt to dodge autograph hunters at a New York airport. The 66-year-old celebrity had been the subject of tabloid reports of ill health, after he was spotted being wheeled through JFK airport wearing a wide-brimmed hat and clutching …

China’s restrictive cyberspace could become more open, the country’s president has claimed. Xi Jinping said the development of his nation’s cyberspace was “entering a fast lane” and with it China’s doors would “only become more and more open” – even though Skype joined the country’s internet blacklist last month. His …

A suicide bomber has killed at least six people in Jalalabad, a day after the Afghan city was rocked by multiple blasts which claimed two lives. Eight were wounded in Sunday’s bombing which occurred outside a football stadium shortly after the end of a rally in support of President Ashraf …

Hardly anyone would be surprised to learn the vast majority of Californians — two in every three adults in the latest statewide poll — thinks the country is headed in the wrong direction. And they’re placing much of the blame on the nation’s two dominant parties. The political map of …

The Republican tax bill is poised to become President Trump’s most significant first-year accomplishment, but the Senate success rests largely with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the quiet Washington insider who accomplished the legislative feat only by shattering the very norms he long championed in Congress. McConnell is known as an …